Integrate your game client with Amazon GameLift
The topics in this section describe the managed Amazon GameLift functionality that you can add to a backend service. A backend service handles the following tasks:
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Requests information about active game sessions from Amazon GameLift.
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Joins a player to an existing game session.
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Creates a new game session and joins players to it.
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Changes metadata for an existing game session.
For more information about how game clients interact with Amazon GameLift and game servers running on Amazon GameLift, see Game client/server interactions with Amazon GameLift.
Prerequisites
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An AWS account.
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A game server build uploaded to Amazon GameLift.
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A fleet for hosting your games.
